TECH YARD

How To Resize and Edit Images Online Using PicResize

Avinash — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 10:30:16 +0000

PicResize is an online image resize and image editing tool that can also apply effects to your photos like rotation,add effects and also resize images in terms of percentages, pixels, or to a custom size.The interface of the tool is simple and requires only 3 steps

Just upload the photograph/image
Set the output size of the image you want and
[ Optional Step ] Select the effect if any and then
Choose the output format type JPEG,PNG,GIF and click “Resize Pic”.

Pic Resize also supports batch resize, using which multiple files can be uploaded and all them can be resized at once and can be downloaded as a single zip file.It supports resize be 75% smaller, 50% smaller and 25% smaller can be saved as JPG, PNG or GIF.

All resize images are stored on their server for only 20 minutes after which the images are deleted.After successfully resizing the images can Save the image online and share it with your friends or use their advanced editor for more editing options where your image automatically loaded by clicking on the “Advanced Edit” Link.

How To Synchronize Files and Folders With The Latest Copies of Files

Avinash — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 11:47:45 +0000

If you work across different systems which are not in a network you would find it difficult to work as the files that you work on day to day are missing, and there’s easy way by default to check if each and every file if on your working system is available in other system’s.

USB Drive’s make it easy to carry along all the required files, but it’s also important to keep it synchronized with your working system so that you always have the same file(s) on your working system and your USB drives if the files have been edited.

Here’s are 2 Folder Synchronization Tools

FreeFileSync
BuduSynchro

If you are working with important files and want automatic sync between folder then you can use FreeFileSync, which has some advanced features like folder comparison, folder sync and also error handling and also different synchronization variants like

Automatic – This uses a database of the changes in the files and sync’s both the source and destination folders.
Mirror Backup – This makes a new directory with exact copies of the files in the left side or as the source folder.
Copy – This method only copies the new and updates files to the destination folder.

Custom Sync rules can also be created for synchronizing files and folders.Folders also be monitored for real-time updates using the automatic backup.

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FreeFileSync can also be installed as a portable app, which is optional and can be selected during the installation process, which can be installed on your USB Drive so that it easier to always compare and sync folders on your portable storage drives.

On comparing two folders, the equal symbols show the similar files and the comparison can also be done based on file size and date or on file content.

Another very simple to use app is the BuduSynchro which is a very easy to use file – folder synchronization app which can sync files and folder across in easy to use interface.The interface is very simple, just browse and select the source folder and the destination folder with which you want to sync, that application automatically updates the destination folder with the latest files and all the affected files will also be listed down for your information.

How do you keep your files synced ?? Do share any other such tools you know.

How To Insert Rupee Symbol Using Rupee Foradian Font

Avinash — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 14:55:52 +0000

India has joined the elite group of countries that have a unique symbol for their currency which very easily identifies the associated country and the economy.Now India has got its symbol for the Indian Rupee designed by “ Mr.D Udaya Kumar ”.But the unicode for inserting the symbol is yet to be designed in the meanwhile if you want to insert the symbol of the Indian Rupee in your document you can try the “Rupee Font by Foradian Technologies” which allows inserting the symbol in documents in computers.

Here’s how to insert the install and insert the Rupee Symbol in documents.

Download the Rupee True Type Font ( Rupee.ttf ).
Next copy and paste the Rupee.ttf file into the Fonts folder in Control Panel in Windows OS, which will install the font.

Now to insert the symbol in any document, as the font is installed.

Open a word processor like., WordPad Select the font as “ Rupee Foradian ” and Press “`” key which would result in the Rupee Symbol “ ` ”.

But the problem is that if you want to use the symbol extensively you need to keep changing the font again and again which can be really time consuming, instead the ` symbol can be automatically be converted into the Rupee Symbol “`” Symbol.

In Ms Word 2007 :

Under “Insert” Tab, Click Symbol –> More Symbols
In the new Symbol Window, change the font to “Rupee Foradian” and select the “Rupee Symbol” from the character set.
Click “AutoCorrect”
Now in the Replace textbox enter the ` symbol ( above the tab key) and select formatted text and click “Replace” button and close button.

Now in the word document press the ` symbol and it would be automatically converted into the Rupee Symbol.

Here’s also a video on how to insert the symbol in MS Word.

How To Disable TouchPad On Laptops

Avinash — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 17:03:04 +0000

Most users face a very common problem of the cursor suddenly changing the position as you type, that might be because you might have accidentally touched the touchpad which resulted in the cursor position being changed, this is very nagging issue.

Using both the keyboard and the touchpad won’t be need and using the same idea is a simple software which is also the solution to this problem ie., TouchPad Pal disables the touchpad as you type so that the cursor point does not accidentally change the position.The app also shows a list of all the clicks that were block while you were typing.

This app need to be running in the background to be able to block accidental clicks, once started the app sits in the tray as a tray icon.The tool has no extra settings, just start the app and you can save some time which composing documents.

Touchpad Pal is compatible with Windows OS.

How To Mount CD/DVD Images Easily Using Portable WinCDEmu – CD/DVD Emulator

Avinash — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 14:51:17 +0000

Optical Data Storage is heading in the same path as Floppy Disk’s, with the availability of high capacity storage devices like USB Drive’s with capacities more than that of DVD’s and Dual Layered DVD’s and the time factor considered for burning data onto a DVD is also another drawback, so the next you get a CD/DVD image to record for just checking the contents of the image then you can try mounting the image (*.iso) into a Virtual CD/DVD Drive using Portable WinCDEmu.

Portable WinCDEmu is a portable CD/DVD emulator which can mount CD/DVD images without requiring any installations, the first time the software is run it installs the drivers that are required for mounting the images, this is similar to the VirtualCD – Control Panel app.

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Next Click the “Mount Another Image Button” to browse and select the image file, once mounted the image can be browsed from the newly created Virtual CD/DVD Drive in My Computer.

Once the image is mounted it is visible in My Computer beside your default CD/DVD Drive.

Another very important point to remember is that multiple image files can be mounted which will be mounted into separate Virtual Drives.

To UnMount a mounted image, select the Drive and Image File Name and Press “UnMount” Button.If you are using a public system, then you can also uninstall the driver by pressing “Uninstall Driver”.

As this is a portable app, this is quite useful as it can be carried along to check CD/DVD Image contents without requiring to burn the images which is time consuming.

Is this app useful to your or do you use any other such similar app.Do share your thoughts on the app.

How To Fix Common Windows OS Problems Using IOBit ToolBox

Avinash — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 11:07:11 +0000

Operating systems and Hardware require regular maintenance with tasks like deleting temporary files, detecting and fixing broken shortcuts, erase internet browser data like browsing history, cache etc. which could help increase performance.There are quite a few apps like CCleaner, FCleaner, etc., that help fix such problems and optimize our systems.

But each have their own limitations and don’t have all the features that are most useful.IOBit Toolbox is free portable app that has 5 tools ie., Clean, Optimize, Repair, Security and Control and that address different issues, like display/diagnose PC information, enhance PC security, optimize PC performance and repairing PC problems.

Clean Functions :

Registry Cleaner – Cleans Windows registry and optimizes it.
Privacy Sweeper – Erases internet browser history to protect privacy.
IOBit Uninstaller – Uninstaller applications installed on your machine.
Disk Cleaner – Analyzes Hard Drives and Free space.
File Shredder – Securely delete sensitive data.

Smart Functions :

Smart RAM – Optimzes RAM and free RAM for optimal use
Internet Booster – Optimizes the TCP/IP Protocol and speed up your Internet Connection.
Startup Manger – Optimizes the startup entries and enable/disable app’s from starting up.
Registry Defrag – Defrag the Windows Registry

Also Check out – RamRush and Minimem

Repair Functions :

Undelete – Recover data after deleting files even from the recycle bin.
Shortcut Fixer – Search and Fix broken shortcuts.
Disk Check – Analyze files on the system.
Win Fix – Fix common windows problems
IE Helper – Manager Internet Explorer addons, context menu and restore hijacked settings.

Also Read – How To Erase Data Securely Using CCleaner DOD Standards

Security Functions :

Security Holes Scanner – Scan for security holes that are not fixed on your system and downloads it automatically from Microsoft Server.
Process Manager – Display detailed information about the running process on your machine.

Control Functions :

Cloned File Scanner – Finds duplicate files on your machine, to save disk space.
Disk Explorer – Analyze disk to identify the space occupied different files and folders on the disk.
System Information – Shows the detailed information about your system.
Empty Folder Scanner – Scan and detect empty folders on your machine.

IOBit Toolbox all together has about 20+ functions and which are quite useful for any user, and best part is that it requires no installation and can run without any installation requires and can be carried on your USB Drive.

IOBit Toolbox is compatible with Windows OS.

Enable and Disable Multiple Windows OS Functions In a Single Click

Avinash — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 16:49:13 +0000

Windows OS be it XP, Vista or Windows 7 have a few features that are not normally used by home users for casual use, and not being tech savvy makes them not aware of how to turn off the features that require some digging into the Windows Registry, Control Panel, Group Editor, and Service Management Console to turn of unnecessary services.

If you are the geeky kind then, you might have experienced how boring is to find and turn off all those unnecessary services and features to squeeze every bit of performance from your machine for performance, to do away with this repetitive tasks here a simple tool called Red Button which has a very simple interface using which you can select/deselect all the options in the Windows OS with a single click.

The interface has just single big red Start Button, which will apply all the necessary changes.All the selections can be made from the “Features” window, which has 4 tabs with various options

Performance Tweaks
OS Components
Disk Cleaner
Registry Paths

Once your done with your selections,Click “OK” to head back to the main window and Click the “Big Read Start Button”.

The application can also be carried along on a USB drive like any portable app.After installing the app, just copy the installation folder on the USB Drive and to run the application “RedButton.exe” which would in the installation folder.So that you don’t need to install it on every system.

Red Button is compatible with Windows XP/Vista/7 (both 32 and 64 bit) and is only 136KB.

How To Fix Missing Images From Posts In WordPress 3.0

Avinash — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 08:50:11 +0000

WordPress 3.0 has reached great milestones, with quite a few updates and features but there’s one problem that not many user’s are aware of that is causing concern to many blogs that were recently upgraded to WordPress 3.0, that is because of default filter in WordPress 3.0 that makes sure that all the instances of the word “WordPress” is converted to “WordPress” to make sure that the word WordPress is correctly used.

This change is automatic and is enabled right after your update to WordPress 3.0 and the changes are affected to the post content,the post title, and comment text section and also URL’s if the images are named WordPress in the post content, which are renamed to WordPress in the URL eventually leading to broken links and images.This default filter can be turned off using “Remove WordPress to WordPress filter” WordPress Plugin which removes the default filter from affecting the Blog Content,Title and Comment Text.

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Note : This plugin no setting or options page, just install and activate the plugin and this should start working in the background, and this is works on WordPress installations 3.0 or later.

This filter should not have been implemented for WordPress updates as this causes broken links and something like this would be fine on a fresh installation and as it would not have caused any such problems or the filter skipping the changes to images and URL’s could also be fine.Let’s hope there’s a better solution to this in the next update of WordPress.

Source – Amit Bhawani’s Tech Blog

How To Change Font In Your Blog Easily With Fonts From Google Font Directory -Google WP Font Changer

Avinash — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 12:07:11 +0000

Most blogs or have very common font’s that are used and if you are a beginner then its even difficult for you to know how to change the font on your website for the text to look different.Google recently has released Google Font Directory which hosts open sourced licensed font’s which would be served by Google servers.

To use these font’s on your site/blog need some knowledge about how to call the needed javascripts etc., There’s a WordPress plugin that makes it easy to change the WP Theme’s default font’s with any of the available fonts in Google Font Directory very easily.

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Google Web Fonts for WordPress Plugin makes it very easy to use fonts from Google Fonts,It utilizes the Google Web Font API Loader to display fonts that are not installed on the user’s computer.Incase the font is not available, a fallback safe font can also be set just incase if the font is not accessible or not available from the Google Font Directory.

Download and upload the Google Web Fonts for WordPress plugin folder to the plugins folder of the WP Installation and activate it.

The Google Font API is compatible with the following browsers:

Google Chrome: version 4.249.4+
Mozilla Firefox: version: 3.5+
Apple Safari: version 3.1+
Opera: version 10.5+
Microsoft Internet Explorer: version 6+

The Google Font API is not currently supported on iPhone, iPad, iPod, or Android.

Note : The page load time might slightly increase for the first page loads as the user might not have the font installed, font files will be downloaded to the site visitor’s computer for the first view and will be cached in the browser for subsequent page views.

How To Change Case In MS Word Using Keyboard Shortcut

Avinash — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 16:58:43 +0000

MS Office is definitely the most commonly used program to compose documents and edit them, but the commonly used shortcuts for some mundane tasks like changing the letter casing can be really useful.Any selected text can be formatted to be changed to a different case.Knowing keyboard shortcuts makes work easier while using Word.Here’s how to format text in a paragraph and change the letter casing.

In MS Word there is an option to change the case of the Word(s) in a sentence or paragraph and not like the change styles options in MS Office in 2007 ribbon, which show the preview on mouse hovering, to change the Case of the letters, Under Home Tab under Font Section, Select “Change Case”.

The drop-down menu itself shows the examples of

Sentence Case
Lower Case
Upper Case
Captalize All Words
Toggle Case

Alternately, the Case can be changed more easily using the keyboard shortcut –

“ Shift + F3 ”

which lets toggle case, change to lowercase and uppercase.To change case just repeat the keystroke.

WP Minifier – Auto Compress CSS and JS Files In WordPress To Load Webpages Faster

Avinash — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 13:55:27 +0000

Page load is defiantly the most important factor for any webpage and the faster the page loads the higher the chances of the visitors spends more time on a webpage.There are tools like GTMetrix which help see the if your webpages send webpages as Minified.I’ve earlier shared a WordPress plugins – Theme Minifier, which helps compress the themes CSS and JS Files and help compress file size, but that was just limited to just the theme files.

Read More About :

GTMetrix

Theme Minifier WordPress Plugins

The drawback with Theme Minifier WP Plugin is that it just compress the theme files and the both the theme and plugins files as some plugins also use JavaScript and CSS Files, which require extra references in the header.WP Minifier on the other hand is more handy, this plugin grabs JS/CSS files in your generated WordPress page and passes that list to the Minify engine. The Minify engine then returns a consolidated, minified, and compressed script or style for WP Minify to reference in the WordPress header.

Once the plugin is activated, you can configure the settings under “Settings –> WP Minify”.The plugin also has a cache of its own.Under “Advanced Options” Javascript files to exclude from minify can also be included.

WP Minifier Features :

Easily integrate Minify into your WordPress blog.
Debug mode lets you combine files without Minifying them.
Ability to include extra JS and CSS files for Minifying.
Ability to exclude certain JS and CSS files for Minifying.
Minified JS and CSS files can be placed wherever you want.
Support for to minifying external files via caching.
Ability to pass extra arguments to Minify engine.
Expire headers for minified JS and CSS files.
Detection and elimination of duplicate sources.

WP Minifier can defiantly help improve page load speed as the number of requests for JS and CSS files are just 1 for each one of them.Do share with us the experience using WP Minifer.

Vlingo – Enable Voice Commands On Mobile Phones Like iPhone, Blackberry, Windows Mobile and Android Based Phones

Avinash — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 17:04:55 +0000

Mobile Phone are getting smarter and user interaction is increasing rapidly and the number of things that one can do other than just making phone calls is adding great value additions to the devices.Modern Mobile devices are intelligent and smarter which can also recognize user’s voice and take simple and useful commands making it useful to use the phone with voice commands while driving.

I’ve shared DriveSafe.ly Mobile App a iphone app that can read aloud the sms and email.,where it could not compose not sms and email using voice commands., Vlingo fills in the gap which supports 5 platforms (iPhone, Blackberry, Nokia, Windows Phones, and Android) and supports voice commands for composing sms, email, social network status upates, search web, make calls etc.,

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How To Make Your Phone Readout Your SMS & Email Aloud Using DriveSafe.ly Mobile App

Supported Devices :

Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.

Compatible with Samsung Jack.

Samsung –

Bold (9000 series)
Bold (9650, 9700)
Curve (8310, 8320, 8330)
Curve (8900)
Curve (8520, 8530)
Pearl (8110, 8120, 8130)
Pearl Flip (8220, 8230)
Storm (9530)
Storm 2 (9550)
Tour (9630)
World Edition (8830)
8820

Nokia -

Nokia E51
Nokia E52
Nokia E55
Nokia E66
Nokia E71
Nokia E71x
Nokia E72
Nokia E75
Nokia N81
Nokia N95
Nokia N95 8GB
Nokia N96
Nokia N97
Nokia X6
5230
5530 XpressMusic
5800 XpressMusic
6120

Though the app is available as free and paid version, where the free version has a few limited features. For example the iPhone Version of Vlingo supports the following features : Search the Web, Dial your phone, Update Twitter and Facebook Status, Use Google Maps but users cannot send emails, and send a SMS paste.

There’s no free version for the Vlingo for Android Phone and the Paid version Vlingo Plus with added features is available across all mobile platforms.

How To Password Protect Files and Folders Using ProtectMe

Avinash — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 16:04:20 +0000

Securing data is always important, and if you use your system in public places or use a public system to store your files, then its important to know how to protect your files using simple tools.Once such simple to use tool is Protect Me, which can password protect any file with AES for encryption and SHA1 for password validation.This is a portable app and protects file/folders by storing them as .exe file and also password protect the content.

Here’s how to encrypt contents using Protect Me!

Run “Protect Me! 2010.exe” to launch “Protect Me !”.
Drag and Drop files into the container.
Next enter the password to protect the file
Click “Create Container” to save the password file as .exe

How to view the contents of the password protect file

Double Click the saved “.exe” file ex. images.exe
Enter the password for validation
Which shows the list of file and folder inside

Individual files or all the files can be extracted by selecting the file and clicking “Save As” or to extract all the files click “Extract Everything”.

File can also be previewed, by selecting the file and clicking “Run”.

This is a portable app and requires “.Net 3.0 Framework” and can be very handy in protecting files and folders on public systems.

How To Create WordPress Tag Cloud With Tags and Categories In WordPress

Avinash — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:55:19 +0000

A blog especially a tech blog, has a wide range of topics that it can cover and the tagging posts can make it easy to categorize posts even further, but the default way to display categories, tags and archives is to list them one by one, as a drop down or customize the display like splitting the category listing into 2 columns.

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Another very interesting way to display the categories is a cloud with varying font color and font size based on the popularity of the tag, the tag cloud can also be customized.Configurable Tag Cloud is a WordPress plugin that lets users insert a tag cloud with post tags, categories and with a degree of customizations.

The tag cloud can be limited to shown tags in the cloud by the number of posts they are attached to, number of tags to display, font size, include/ exclude to display tags, categories and show empty categories in the tag cloud.The plugin settings can be configured from Settings –> CTC.

If you want to only show the categories as a tag cloud,

The tag cloud can be inserted using a widget.To insert the tag cloud anywhere in you template place function where you want to insert the tag cloud

< ?php ctc(); ? > – and would display a cloud using the options set in the CTC Settings page.

Download and Upload the folder to you wordpress plugins folder and activate it.

How To Turn Off Laptop LCD Monitor and Save Battery Power

Avinash — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 14:00:48 +0000

Global Warming is a very growing concern and the climatic conditions on Earth have something to do with it, which even the Governments and Corporate companies are accepting and encouraging moving to the Greener fuels and reducing the consumption of fossil fuels and using alternative energy sources and computers are the most used devices and most of the power consumption wasted is while they are left idle.

Desktops and LCD monitors have a power off button using which we can manually power off the monitor which most users don’t but when it comes to the laptops or net books there is no power button to switch off the monitor on the laptop and save battery life which would help save lot of battery power while running on battery.

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How To Turn Monitor Off Automatically and Save Power

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Here’s Turn Off LCD a simple app that helps turn off the LCD Monitor off your laptops with a single click, and the monitor can be switched on instantly by any key press or moving the mouse.The tool is a portable app and was developed in C# and requires Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 installed on your machine.

How To Use :

Download and Unzip the archive
Double click “Turn Off LCD.exe” to turn off your monitor.
To switch your monitor back on, just press a key or move the mouse

You can place a shortcut on your desktop, Quick Start or incase you don’t keep a QuickStart you can try Dock like xWindowsDock and add the application to it for easier access.

The app is compatible with the Windows OS.

How To Track and Get Notified When Google Bot Crawls Your Site

Avinash — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 16:11:41 +0000

Did you start your first blog, website then you are sure loaded its content and waiting for Google Bot to crawl the site and start indexing your content, but the problem is that won’t know when the Google crawled.Though you there are other ways ways to track Google Bot activity like by using the Google WebMaster Tool, but that requires manual monitoring.

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Google Index Spy – To keep track of which pages Google Bot’s crawled and indexed

If you want instant notification via email as and when the Bot crawls your site then you can try installing the Google Bot Bling WordPress Plugin.If you have a busy site and the Google Bot crawls your site more frequently then you might start receiving a lot of email, instead all the emails can be grouped and sent across in a single email at a scheduled time.The plugin can also create a secret report file(.txt) about the crawl stats which can be easily accessed on your server and viewed.

This can be a handy plugin to keep track of the Google Search Bot activity on your site.

Mac OS Leopard Theme For Windows 7

Avinash — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 18:00:46 +0000

Windows 7 has a new refreshing interface and has a few interesting features like Superbar, jumplists etc. but incase you want a desktop and interface like Mac OS that you configured on a Windows XP or Vista using third party tools.I’ve shared quite a few themes and transformation packs to transform a Windows OS interface into a Mac OS user interface.If you customized your old desktop with a Mac OS like interface using tools like

but the problem is that most of the customization might only be partially be applied on Windows 7.If you are a Windows 7 user here’s a simple Mac OS Snow Leopard Theme for Windows 7.

Snow Leopard for Windows 7 theme for Windows 7 is available in Basic, Normal & Glass Style and is compatible with 32 and 64 bit versions of the OS.For using the theme in Windows 7, one needs to use the a universal theme patch to apply third-party Styles in Windows 7.

Download: Universal Theme Patcher

Next Unzip & Copy Snow Leopard to : c:\windows\resources\themes

Next Goto Desktop Personalize & apply Snow Leopard.

To Move the Maximize/Minimize and Close Buttons to the Leftside like in Mac OS,Use the portable app “leftsider”.

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Download Mac OS Leopard Theme for Windows 7.

How To Manage and Insert SlideShows In Posts and Pages In WordPress

Avinash — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 14:36:20 +0000

Most wordpress themes have featured posts slideshows which are based on JQuery and is limited to just the homepage and limited to the same posts if implemented across the template, but they cannot be inserted into the posts or pages.WPS3Slider is a wordpress plugin that lets users create multiple slider galleries and include multiple galleries on any post and page with customization option with each slideshow like of number of slides, size of the images, text on mouseover in slideshow etc.,The plugin makes use of the jQuery, s3Slider and timthumb script for resizing images and also to render multiple galleries on your WordPress blogs.

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Here’s how to insert slider galleries using wps3slider.

First Upload the plugins to your wordpress installation’s plugins folder and then activate the plugin.
Next navigate to “Media –> WPS3lider”One should find 2 tabs Galleries and Add item.
Under Add Galleries Tab Click “ Add Gallery” button to create and configure a new gallery.
Next click “Add Items” tab to add items like Image,Image Link, Overlay Message and Span Location to the created Gallery.
To insert the gallery in a post or page, in the post editor click on the s2slider icon next click on “insert” to insert the gallery in a post or page from the list of created galleries and from the list of gallery click “insert” for the gallery you want to insert, next from the popup window copy the shortcode and insert the shortcode into the post under the HTML Editor.

If you want to place a gallery within your template files,so that you can insert gallery in the homepage or sidebar.

Here’s how to do it., place the following code in your wordpress template files

do_shortcode(‘[wps3 id="1"]‘);

Demo of WPS3Slider

How To Clean Your WordPress Installation Of Old Unused Entries

Avinash — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 11:30:55 +0000

CCleaner is one of the most popular junk removal tool for windows that lets you removed temporary and orphaned,unused entries in your Windows Registry, Similarly Clean Options is a WordPress plugin that lets you find orphaned options and allows for their removal from the wp_ options table.

Clean Options finds orphaned options in the wp_options table but are not referenced by “get_option” or “get_settings” by any of the PHP files located within your blog directory. If you have deactivated plugins and/or non-used themes in your directory, the associated options will not be considered orphaned until the files are removed.

How to Clean WordPress :

Download and Install Clean Options plugin, After Activating the plugin, you would find the plugin under Tools, then click Find Orphaned Options.
From the list of possibly orphaned options, select all and then click “View Selected Options Information”.
Then see the list of options and its values and then select either YES | NO and click “Submit” to delete the options.

NOTE : It is strongly suggested that you BACKUP your database before removing any options.

Clean Options WP Plugin works with PHP >= 4.2.0 and PHP 5 and is compatible upto WP 2.9.2

How To Search and Download Videos From Video Sharing Sites From Your Desktop

Avinash — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 08:30:46 +0000

Downloading video especially tutorials is helpful for watching the video repeatedly without needing to re-buffer the same video every time you watch it online.There are quite a few tools and browser addons which let users download online video and convert them into different formats making them compatible with various multimedia devices like iPhone, iPad etc.,

VDownloaderis one such video downloader that can download video from popular video sharing sites.It also has a inbuilt browser using which you can search for video across different sites and download them easily, instead of copy-pasting URL’s.Video downloads can be scheduled and downloaded at a specified time and/or when your PC is idle.

Browser Addon’s and Alternatives For Downloading Video’s :

Complete playlists can also be downloaded by Copy-pasting the playlist URL or multiple simultaneous downloads can started by individually pasting the URL’s.Like a Download Manager, VDownloade has a Automatic video download acceleration that lets watching and downloading video’s faster.It can also monitor the clipboard and asks for Save As information as soon the link to a video is copied to the clipboard.

Multiple files can be downloaded as a batch download, to download multiple files as batch download navigate to File –> Batch Downloads, and next copy-paste a list of all video URL’s.All the video’s in the batch download list can be merged and saved as a single file.There is an option to schedule downloads at specified days or time, but there is no option to resume downloads.

Each download can be set a different priority for downloads and the files can be saved the downloaded videos as AVI, MKV, MP4, MPG, 3GP, VCD, SVCD, DVD, FLV or MP3 (audio only) and export your videos to your iPod/iPhone/iPad, PSP, Nokia or any other mobile device.